Cecilia Akua Edu

Cecillia was born in 28 November 1928. He attended Haggai Institute of Advanced Leadership where he obtained his Diploma in Advanced Leadership. He worked as a teacher before going into parliament.

He began his political career in 1992 when he became the parliamentary candidate for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to represent his constituency in the Central Region of Ghana prior to the commencement of the 1992 Ghanaian parliamentary election.

He was sworn into the First Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana on 7 January 1993 after being pronounced winner at the 1992 Ghanaian election held on 29 December 1992.

After serving his four years tenure in office, Cecillia lost his candidacy to his fellow party comrade J.E. Afful. He defeated Andrew Kingsford Mensah of the National Patriotic Party (NPP) who polled 13,088 votes which was equivalent to 28.50% of the total valid votes cast and Emmanuel F. Appiah-Kubi of the Convention People's Party (CPP) who polled 235 votes which was equivalent to 0.50% of the total valid votes cast at the 1996 Ghanaian general elections. J.E. Afful polled 20,262 votes which was equivalent to 44.10% of the total valid votes cast. He was thereafter elected on 7 January 1997.[2]